SBIR/STTR Research Award
Ink-Jet Printing of Gradient Index of Refraction Lenses
Award amount
$0Program and phase
SBIR · Phase IAward year
2001Award details
- Awarding agency
- Department of Defense
- Branch
- Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency
- Recipient company
- MicroFab Technologies Inc
- Proposal award date
- Not reported
- Contract end date
- Not reported
- UEI
- VAJ2W9CDYXT9
- Solicitation number
- Not reported
- Topic code
- Not reported
Research abstract
We propose to develop a rapid prototyping/manufacturing technology for the direct-write fabrication of optical components, including GRIN (Gradient index of Refraction) lenses up to 6 inches in diameter. We will build a GRIN Lens Printing Platform whichwill utilize a 3D ink-jet printing approach with multiple print heads having fluids of differing refractive index, and we will use this machine to form GRIN lenses directly from CAD file inputs derived from optical models. We will develop sets of opticalmaterial formulations for printing, beginning with ultraviolet-curing optical epoxies and evolving toward low-melting-point infrared glasses. The commercializable
Technology keywords
Not reported
Other awards by this recipient
Verified by the same UEI. These are other public SBIR/STTR award pages, not a merged company record.
- Alternative Manufacturing Meethod for Heaters for Electron Guns by Ink-jet Printing
- Alternative Manufacturing Meethod for Heaters for Electron Guns by Ink-jet Printing
- Inkjet Based System for Lipid Cubic Phase Crystal Screening of GPCR's
- SBIR Phase II: Vapor Generator for the Calibration of Explosive Trace Detectors
- Ink-Jet System for Protein Crystallization
Research funding history
58 SBIR/STTR records share this UEI (1988–2015). Reported award amounts total $12,968,991. Reported amounts are not federal obligations.
Phases: Phase I, Phase II
Agencies: Department of Health and Human Services, National Science Foundation, Department of Defense, National Aeronautics and Space Administration, Environmental Protection Agency, Department of Commerce